Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which all the guests had been pledged to attend as "stags", and which had invariably turned out to be dismal failures, the editors of the Emerald proceed to declare their opposition to the idea. In thus recording their disfavor of the "dutch treat date" they were probably expressing the opinion of the majority of present day college students...
...have discussed the House Plan with a number of undergraduates and find the opinion of those at all informed on the subject to be almost universally favorable. The rejection, by a college referendum, of the student council proposal of the House Plan two years ago would not have occurred, I feel sure, had the matter been sufficiently understood. The fact that the leaders in undergraduate life, then as now, favored such a proposal may surely be regarded as indicative of the support of the thinking student...
...difficult to forecast what must be the reaction upon British opinion of this assertion of independence as the goal of a great political party, by persons who would claim the title of responsible politicians. Those in Great Britain who sympathize most warmly with the idea of India attaining at the earliest possible moment the status of any of the other great dominions of the Crown will find the ground cut from under their feet if British opinion ever becomes convinced that so-called dominion status was valued by India only as a stepping-stone to a complete severance...
...Board, aided by front-page publicity given to bearish conversations in Congress and in the Reserve advisory council, succeeded in scaring Wall Street into a liquidation movement. A definite obituary on the bull market might, however, be a little premature. Mysterious despatches from Washington stressed an alleged division of opinion on the Federal Reserve Board and the existence of a minority party opposed to anti-speculative measures...
...Lawyer Levy confounded him with questions on art history and showed that M. Chernoff's advice had rarely, if ever, been sought in weighty controversy. Sir Joseph chuckled as the Chernoff lecture began. Later he gazed into a newspaper with obvious boredom. When M. Chernoff gave his opinion that the Hahn painting was a Leonardo and that the Louvre painting was not a Leonardo, Sir Joseph mumbled: "By Jove! Sacrilege...